Welcome to HVAC-Talk.com, a non-DIY site and the ultimate Source for HVAC Information & Knowledge Sharing for the industry professional! Here you can join over 150,000 HVAC Professionals & enthusiasts from around the world discussing all things related to HVAC/R. You are currently viewing as a NON-REGISTERED guest which gives you limited access to view discussions

To gain full access to our forums you must register; for a free account. As a registered Guest you will be able to:

Participate in over 40 different forums and search/browse from nearly 3 million posts.

You know, I always wonder if the actual installers/techs/business owners have been on here looking through the "Wall of Shame" files and says to himself......"That looks really familiar.......Oh Sh*t!"

If your not getting the results you desire then change. People change from either desperation or inspiration.

me personally, the h/o was given options and this may have been the best option in his mind. over the years i've seen houses where i say, who's idea was this? the builder/ the architec, trying to hide units for aesthetic,, affects,the h/o on a budget as compared with opening up walls and the added expese of sheet rock,patch/paint,so when i see a picture like this,i factor in all the variables involved. but it isn't my house,and wasn't my choice.

Wow that has me cracking up, sorry to laugh. The good news is a real contractor can clean that up, unfortunately it will cost a few bucks. Normally I would say you could take all the money you saved by hiring such a contractor but it sounds like you paid for a Cadillac and got a Yugo... Its hard to decide on a contractor, you just never know what you are going to get. I always recommend going with a small to mid size company, and it helps to know who is actually going to do the work. I help on most of my company's installs, it gives the customer a warm fuzzy knowing that I will be on top of giving them a great installation.

America; first we fight for our freedom,
then we make laws to take it away.

Reviving this old thread, because the time has come to relocate the lineset off the outside wall.

I have an "off the wall" question-pun intended. After much searching throughout the house, there are no good options such as closets or places to run the lineset up through the house. When the install was done, we had an option to place the unit on a flat roof, but the owner of the company rejected that idea.

So here's my question--and please be gentle in your replies. We would run the lineset from the unit on the ground through the foundation and into the basement. We replaced our boiler and hot water heater with a high efficiency Weil McClain Unit this fall. So the line chimney flue is vacant. I went to the roof and checked it out. There is a separate terra cotta masonry fireplace flue separated from the old boiler flue and running parallel to it.

One idea I am favoring is to run the lineset up through the unused chimney flue and cut a hole in the chimney in the attic and run it out through the side of the chimney. The unit is right next to the chimney, so it would be a clean run. I can assure you we would not vent anything through this lined flue as it is completely out of commission.

Good or bad idea?

I want to consider and eliminate this idea before I start with a professional and the option of moving the unit to the roof.

Not covering the last 2 feet really makes the whole job look shi..........er....poor.
We use square plastic guttering alot, which looks like that, but covering the entire lineset makes a big difference.

Good idea on the chimney. Have done this multiple times. You could even cap that portion of the chimney to keep it dry. Original install was a mess. Did you finish paying for this? When the owner/boss looked at this job he thought it looked ok? My boss would of made me redo that.